No more Guitar Heroes for the PS3? Fat Chance.

The Globe and Mail calls Activision a "bully" for suggesting it might stop making PS3 games, and labels the threat "hollow."

"...So one of the world's most profitable game makers is asking its partner, a currently struggling hardware maker (the same Times article noted that Sony's game division lost nearly half a billion dollars last year), to lose more money so that it can make more. With partners like that, who needs competitors?

More to the point, it's a hollow threat.

I simply can't imagine Activision ceasing to port over games that will continue to be developed for other platforms. The publisher's Guitar Hero franchise alone has sold nearly four million PlayStation 3 copies worldwide, and brands like Call of Duty and Tony Hawk have had similar success on Sony hardware. Choosing not to release future iterations of these games for the PlayStation 3 would be akin to Activision saying, "We'd rather make a point than earn hundreds of millions of dollars in easy profits," which, as far as I know, would be a first for the industry-and one with which investors likely wouldn't be too tickled..."

I want to support Infinity Ward. They were one of the few developers who didn't fall for all the cheap "PS3 is too hard to do a multiplat properly" PR BS that Activision is currently championing. They came out and did their game to match on both consoles and used each console's strength to make sure they made a quality game for the gaming community in general.

So, I have always stated I'll support them in virtually every game they do as long as they continue that mind-set.

However, Activision looks like they're trying to get that EA syndrome so good luck to them on that front but I certainly won't be buying anything they develop or publish.

MW will be an exception cause of my support for developers like IW but no more activision for me. There isn't a game they develop or publish - that I'm interested in the genre - that I can't get else where for equal or much higher quality value anyways. For me, Activision has no MUST HAVE games.

From the article: "I simply can’t imagine Activision ceasing to port over games that will continue to be developed for other platforms. The publisher’s Guitar Hero franchise alone has sold nearly four million PlayStation 3 copies worldwide, and brands like Call of Duty and Tony Hawk have had similar success on Sony hardware. Choosing not to release future iterations of these games for the PlayStation 3 would be akin to Activision saying, “We’d rather make a point than earn hundreds of millions of dollars in easy profits,” which, as far as I know, would be a first for the industry—and one with which investors likely wouldn’t be too tickled."

Regardless, Bobby Kotick is still a genius business man, first he bought a company for less then 500k, a company losing nearly $30 million a year. In a few years he turned said company into the industries juggernaut.

Now, he was able to pull a few strings to make it look like his company was going to drop support of the PS3. Threating Sony saying that if they don't have a price drop withing TWO YEARS they MAY consider withdrawing support. For some reason everyone took it, completely disregarding the fact that he is giving them OVER TWO YEARS to drop the price on the console as fact....

Actually It is true, Technically AV did give Sony about 2 years to drop price, because AV already has a game line up for Sony products that stretches a couple of years.

Good eye to Elven, I didn't realize that until now. so of course the PS3 will drop price within 2 years, then AV can brag as if "See, even Sony Listens to us" when in fact Sony was gonna drop price anyways within 2 years.

AV is Sneaky but not that Sneaky, The N.Korea of the gaming Industry, only difference here is that AV has more money then N.Korea.

Activision clambering for a PS3 price drop is cute. They're asking 120 dollars for the new Tony Hawk game? The last one didn't sell well at half that price. The game costs more than half the price of a 360 Arcade! It's not like the similarly priced Guitar Hero band kit, because that includes instruments for 4 people to play at once, not just a single person. Also, Guitar Hero can get away with being overpriced because EVERYONE loves music, and it's a good party game. I just don't see skateboarding as a party game like Guitar Hero, or as much of an appealing experience, and it's possible to have fun skating games without expensive peripherals, whereas the musical instrument peripherals are basically required for a fun experience with rhythm games.

Rock Band the songs and imagine Sony taking away there movie licences actually Sony should drop activision and lets see if activision will still be #1 and lets see Infinity Word leave activision with MW and go to EA which i wouldn't be surprised if that's Infinity Wards plan it looks that way with them dropping the COD name and go with MW name

Do it Activision. Rock band is their for the music fans. Skate is their for the skate board fans. CoD is just getting rehashed every year with minimal additions. Yea CoD4 set a mark but [email protected] was a step back.

When Activision actually takes some time to put out QUALITY games like LittleBigPlanet, Killzone2, Metal Gear Solid, Uncharted. Then, AND ONLY THEN, will they have something to brag about.

Activision needs to learn that GH got it's start on a Sony console (under Harmonix, rightfully so). And I can only imagine the song and dance it took for them to sell Sony on this game. New, untested genre of game with a then-hefty price tag and a big ugly plastic guitar?

So, numerous versions later, the game is essentially the same. Just more instruments and more artist's backing.

Brutally speaking, every GH version bought is basically a full-price expansion pack. Activision's icons are dying slow deaths anyway. And now they're trying the "big ugly plastic thing" again with Tony Hawk, whose games should've been put to rest after the disasters following TH: Underground.

And more recently Spider-Man: Web of Shadows and Prototype, which were both repackaged Hulk: Ultimate Destruction games.

Not that Activison hasn't done good things with games, but once monkeys in suits start running their mouths, they stop getting money from me. Thanks for Ghostbusters, Atari.

I only agree about this, "a currently struggling hardware maker (the same Times article noted that Sony's game division lost nearly half a billion dollars last year), to lose more money so that it can make more." lol.

Sony needs to learn their lesson for the sake of future Playstation consoles... no one asked Sony to make the PS3 so expensive compared to other consoles in the market... no one ask sony to make the PS3 many times more difficult to make games for.

And let's not talk about "partner"... when Sony has done very little for 3rd party developers... instead they are always undermining 3rd party games in many cases using their 1st parties against 3rd parties...

treating 3rd party developers like idiots... even Sony leg humpers insult 3rd party developers when they struggle to adapt to Sony changing their architecture and APIs completely.

Developers like Activision are complaining because they are seeing a big difference between the way Sony treat them vs how Microsoft treat them.

Microsoft understand how important 3rd party developers are... they try to work with them with DLC, Microsoft made the xbox 360 developer friendly... Microsoft in many cases will sing deals that benefit them equally... even Rockstar cant complain about Microsoft.

What does sony say? mmm... we Sony do not pay for exclusives.. we do not make deals... developers must make games on the PS3 because we are it!...

Activision just like other developers are asking themselves, "wait a second... Microsoft treat us like partners... we work together to bring more content and games..."...

You speak of partnership... but what have SOny done for Activision? but just make the console so, developers like activision are required to license the right to make games on the PS3 and pay royalties?

At least Microsoft give some of the money they collect in royalties back to developers in the form of timed exclusives and DLC.

explain to me why Rockstar games is making a new game only for PS3 or how Squere Enix is making 2 exclusives only on PS3 and 1 on PC or how Kojima has said him and his team will work with the next MGS PSP game instead of working on the first 360 MGS game ( i know he's producing Rising ) now from the looks of it Sony has it pretty good with third party developers i don't see there in jeopardy with there third party developers but you are very wrong to believe MS tactics with third party developers is good now Sony has been in the business of games more than MS and they see that they have to really in first party developers Sony & Nintendo knows that and from we see it has proven to be a wise choice and if i recall PS2 was hard to develop for and it still beat dreamcast xbox and gamecube and is still selling which shows Sony makes a system that will last for years while MS well they don't look at Clasic Game Room review of RROD and he basically puts the 360 to shame as it did not last as long as his Atari 2600

everybody know that bobby kottick is a 1st class major azzhole. Everytime he open is mouth, everyone laught at him. Activison is probably one of the rare company in this industry that gamers who read news about gaming industry hate

With respect to activision, I would like to thank them for serving and giving their product on my favorite console. I mean by the playstation. Lets go back and check who helped the activision to collect this much of fortune and due to it became the leader in software development. But I hate them when they said that Sony has to re-cut the price of the ps3 system. Ok fine I agree with you but what the hell do you know about technology. Don’t dare try even to compare a single piece of the ps3 with any console. it has a GPU, Blue ray, Blue tooth, built-in wifi and it support up to 7 controller. How come the price of the PS3 should be similar to Xbox360?

I hope the next COD flops, so they don't have any good games to sell. Activision is a sh¡tty company that doesn't deserves my respect. They are not Square, they are not Ubisoft and by no means they are not Sony Computer. They can go to hell. They lineup for 2009 is pathetic and laughable.